Comments on: Retrospective: A state of esteem?

By: Chris Lee

Chris Lee — Mon, 06 May 2019 21:33:09 +0000

I see no reason why government workers forcibly seizing property from individuals, under threat of imprisonment in a government cage [where they are likely to be ___ (blocked when I write it)], and channeling the stolen resources into collective government programs to teach respect and value of the individual self, would prove anything but a great boon to individuals’ self-esteem.

By: Jim Vasconcellos

Jim Vasconcellos — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:04:48 +0000

Craig – you are 180 degrees wrong. I have often heard my uncle complain that the general misinterpretation about self esteem has caused an over reaction. I remember him saying many times, ‘the first word in that phrase is “self.”‘ What he was getting at is that the systems go overboard and instead of providing individuals to earn self esteem by giving them opportunitites to achieve, they coddle people. We’ve gone too far with political correctness because people have taken to reducing complex issues to sound bite solutions. This isn’t about not being mean to people. It is about helping them succeed by lifting them up with opportunities for them to prove to themsleves that they can make the EFFORT and CONTRIBUTE. And they will then learn that lesson and grow through their own work.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:05:37 +0000

My self-esteem goes down every time California taxes go up.

By: Craig Powell

Craig Powell — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:43:06 +0000

What Vasco never understood was that self-esteem must be earned, not injected. If you do good in life, you feel good. If you do bad, you feel bad (unless you are a sociopath without a conscience). Liberals just can’t seem to grasp it.